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Zogby? Now that’s a blast from the past. I think this is the first time this election cycle that I even heard his name mentioned.

Back in the mid 1990's Zogby was considered one of the best pollsters around, and was even featured on Rush Limbaugh's show several times. However, after 9/11 he bought into the George W. Bush is EVIL and want's to destroy the Muslim world line (he's of Arab decent). He started moving more and more left, and his polls started to move with him, becoming little more than pro-democrat push polls. He pretty much lost all credibility he had left when he predicted Kerry was going to beat Bush by 6% in his final 2004 poll. In 2008 he was dead last in accuracy again, predicting Obama would win by 11% (he won by six). (By the way, Pew and Rasmussen were tied for the best accuracy in 2008)

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It is worse then hating Bush, His brother is a lobbyist for the Arab’s

James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based organization which serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab American community

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IIRC, Zogby was the only pollster who predicted Dole would have a decent showing against Clinton. Again, to the degree that my memory serves me without double checking — and that is always iffy — his last poll predicted Clinton would win by 6%, and the final tally was Clinton +8.5. A lot of other major pollsters had BJ up by 12 or even 14. He was a newcomer on the scene, so people thought it was significant. Beginner's luck, and nothing more as it turns out.